How do judges of the Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Michigan Court of Appeals / Joined 1991 / Served to 2011

Chad Schmucker

Judge, Michigan Court of Appeals

Chad Schmucker was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–2011 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Michigan Court of Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Schmucker authored 1 published opinion for the court (1996), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: People v. Bobek (22 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 3 of these were attributed to Schmucker by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1996	People v. Bobek†	553 N.W.2d 18	22
1996	Park v. American Casualty Insurance· Concurrence†	555 N.W.2d 720	18
1996	People v. Cohen· Dissent†	551 N.W.2d 191	7

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Questions & answers

How do judges of the Michigan Court of Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Chad Schmucker on?: Chad Schmucker was a Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals.

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20 years on the Michigan Court of Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).